Synonyms:
Yale_University, Yale
Meaning: a university in Connecticut
Usage examples
"Perhaps you'll want me to buy a blue sofa pillow or some other Yale thing," sighed Will Hardon.
About a fourth of the canoes that attempt to come up are lost in the rapids which extend from Fort Yale nearly to the Forks.
The voyageurs again embarked, and swept down the narrow bends of the turbulent floods at what are now Lytton, Yale, and Hope.
Almost every bar on the river from Yale up will pay from three dollars to seven dollars a day to the man at the present stage of water.
It was here, for example, in 1893, that Yale defeated Harvard at football, and the historic Pigskin which was used that day is still preserved intact.
Within two miles of Yale eighty Indians and thirty white men were working the gold-bars; and log boarding-houses and saloons sprang up along the river-bank as if by magic.
Exactly fifty-six years from the first rush of '58 in the month of April, I sat on the banks of the Fraser at Yale and punted across the rapids in a flat-bottomed boat and swirled in and out among the eddies of the famous bars.
This amount, divided among the ten thousand men who were on the bars around Yale, would not average as much as they could have earned as junior clerks with the fur company, or as peanut pedlars in San Francisco; but not so does the mind of the miner work.
In this connection, however, it would be well to avoid making any rash statements regarding undying friendship and affection, because, when you next see Eddie or Walter, at Christmas time, you will have been three months in the East, while they have been at the State University, and really, after one starts dancing with Yale men--well, it's a funny world.